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Dryer Vent Question
Our dryer lies alongside our exterior wall and I wished to get individuals’s opinion on whether or not it is value re-routing the vent from the roof to the outside wall. Would love to listen to the professionals and cons.
Thanks!
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It could have be dearer and sophisticated to exit the exhaust via a roof vent so there might have been causes for it. There may be constructing codes about how far-off from an adjoining window an exhaust bent must be.
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By new, do you imply new to you or model new? A dryer ought to have a filter to forestall lint from entering into the vent. Clear the filter after every drying cycle and you should not have any issues.
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jts402 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 6:56 pm
My spouse and I moved into a brand new home the place our second ground dryer vent exited via the roof. The dryer lately gave us a blockage alert and we had a chimney sweep clear the vent from the roof. They discovered the vent to be coated thick layer of lint and no air was coming via till they eliminated it.Our dryer lies alongside our exterior wall and I wished to get individuals’s opinion on whether or not it is value re-routing the vent from the roof to the outside wall. Would love to listen to the professionals and cons.
Thanks!
Our dryer is on the second ground and vents via the outside wall. Home is 1988 development. Vent has a flapper on it, lint would construct up across the flapper hinge, stop it from closing and birds would construct nests within the vent duct. I usual a display screen out of 1/4″ hen wire and solved the nesting drawback. Sometimes (about yearly) I get on a ladder, take away the display screen, clear out the duct with a dryer vent brush and reinstall the display screen.
We all the time clear the dryer’s lint display screen.
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cheese_breath wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:21 pm
By new, do you imply new to you or model new? A dryer ought to have a filter to forestall lint from entering into the vent. Clear the filter after every drying cycle and you should not have any issues.
We clear the dryer filter every time and the vent nonetheless will get blocked with lint. Since it’s inaccessible for us, we now have it cleaned out each 3 years or so.
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A clue! Are you in a location the place there is a freeze- thaw cycle? In that case, rerouting is a particular choice. In any other case, take a store vac and clear it out a couple of times a 12 months.
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I might not reroute the dryer vent.
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If you happen to re-route, then simply be certain that rats and squirrels cannot get to the opening and chew via the opening flaps.
Was the vent cleaned earlier than you moved in? Was the lint from the earlier house owners?
Additionally I’m wondering if the vent tube is accessible from contained in the attic, in order that one wouldn’t need to go up on the roof to wash it. These conduits are sometimes simply “press match”, so it ought to have been trivial to wash it from inside the home.
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cheese_breath wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:21 pm
By new, do you imply new to you or model new? A dryer ought to have a filter to forestall lint from entering into the vent. Clear the filter after every drying cycle and you should not have any issues.
Hmm, no. We clear our dryer vent each single time, and I used to be completely gobsmacked once I employed a man to blow it out – there was a blizzard of lint and mud on the bottom, and he crammed a vac bag utterly. Granted, this was years of construct up, however nonetheless … You’ll have LESS dryer lint when you clear the filter, however tons nonetheless will get out.
I can not think about why anybody would put a dryer vent vertically up via a roof, with out good cause. It has to blow rather a lot more durable, and there WILL be plenty of lint simply falling again in…. dangerous design. If doable, vent it horizontally to the closest affordable exit. And get a hard and fast non-accordian pipe.
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We needed to have our duct work re-routed when a deck was rebuilt and we needed to adhere to code. We have got a minimum of 15 ft of duct work. Possibly each 3 years or so, I pull it aside and clear it utterly. I let it go about 4 years and it gave a blocked duct warning. Completely, when you can shorten the vent, do it.
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